The “Be Thankful” Challenge comes to me from Rob at Art by Rob Goldstein. Thank you, Rob! 🙂
The Challenge Rules:
• Share this image in your blog post
• Write about 5 people in your life you are thankful for
• Write about 5 things in 2015 that you are thankful for
• Spread the love and challenge 5 other blogs to take part
I’m applying the rules creatively and I hope this is okay!
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My Five and Five Favorite Quotes on Thankfulness:
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” ~Aldous Huxley
“I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive.” ~Khaled Hosseini
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little….” ~Buddha
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” ~William Faulkner
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” ~Willie Nelson
“I feel a very unusual sensation — if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.” ~Benjamin Disraeli
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~John F. Kennedy
“If you have lived, take thankfully the past.” ~John Dryden
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What if, just for today, we were thankful for everything?
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My Five Challenge Nominees:
Brad at Bradscribe
Opher at Opher’s World
Raphaela at Hummingbird Redemption
Vic at Just Plain Ol’ Vic
Blue at Twice Twenty-Five
I also nominate EVERYONE who would like to participate! 🙂
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Thanks for nominating me! I will post my reply in a couple of days. 😁
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Thanks, Vic! I hope that you’ll enjoy the challenge as much as I did. 🙂
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I like that JFK quote especially!
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Yes! It’s become a classic, hasn’t it?
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Great post and nice fellow bloggers, Danica. I liked the simplicity in Willie Nelson’s quote and JFK’s words, living by them makes your gratitude really “count.”
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Thank you, Robin! Willie Nelson’s quote made me smile and I agree with you about JFK’s quote. Words to live by.
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Thank you for accepting the challenge. I love the quotes so much I’m going to reblog this. 🙂
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Wow, Rob, thank you so much! I’m thrilled that you like this one enough to reblog. I’m smiling-smiling-smiling. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Art by Rob Goldstein.
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